Wal-Mart Backs Employer Health Care Insurance Mandate

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 5:11pm

When the world’s largest retailer backs something like this, it’s hard to ignore.

Especially since they’ve had such a spotty record when it came to covering their 2 million employees in the past.

From The Hill :

With Wal-Mart’s endorsement of a legal requirement that employers provide health benefits to their workers, the nation’s largest employer has broken from the business community.

[...]

Moreover, Wal-Mart declared its support for the employer mandate in a joint...


Tags:

 

More related items

AP sources: Health bill may cut employer mandate (AP)
AP - Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms would owe significant penalties if any worker needed...

Quote Of The Day - On Private Rationing
“Right now insurance companies are rationing care. They are basically telling you what’s covered and what’s not. They’re telling you: ‘We’ll cover this...

New, Less Costly Healthcare Plan Floated Today
After the CBO projected major deficits, the plan was revised and recirculated. And this comes just in the nick of time, as Daschle & Dole’s “state run healthcare” plan...

Official: Prison fire in Honduras leaves 272 dead (AP)
AP - Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 272 inmates, authorities said Wednesday.

APNewsBreak: Israel: Thai bombs like India attack (AP)
AP - The homemade bombs discovered in a Bangkok house after a series of blasts in the city were similar to devices used against Israeli Embassy targets in India and Georgia, Israel's...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.